Flashing the BIOS of an Asus AN8-E Mobo wins you a PRIZE

[MrAngryFace]

The prize is a FREE reason to reformat your pc! Flashed the bios with the Asus Update Utility from version 1001 (LOL WHY MY DUAL CORE ONLY SINGLE?!) to 1013 and when it rebooted there was no fucking way in hell I could get the PC to detect the Windows installation, even tho through the repair environ I could SEE the windows installation and the drive. So I reformatted.

The plus side is everything finally runs like pure sex after much hand wringing. OMG OMG 60 fps wow at maxxed settings in silvermoon omg omg

[Mupepe]

I still have two of those fuckers sitting unused!  I think I just might build a media PC for my living room with them or something.

So if I use a dual core in there, it won't detect it unless I flash the BIOS?

[MrAngryFace]

iirc the AN8-E won't detect a dual core until BIOS ver 1010.

[T234]

I look in my device manager, and it says I have two processors. MAF, enlighten me.

[MrAngryFace]

I never looked into that computer much since i just used it to pump video to my tv, what does it list.

[T234]

Two pentium 4's @ 2.4GHZ

[MrAngryFace]

lol, some kind of error. Just boot up and check to see what the bios says. device manager can go fruit loops once in a while.

[T234]

I ran Dawn of War yesterday, highest settings, 1024x768, 60+fps.

[T234]

How do you get to the bios? There is a bunch of information that flashes onscreen real quick and disappears.

[MrAngryFace]

usually Del at bootup does that. If you aren't familiar with BIOS stuff I would 'look but not touch' and 'exit without saving'

[Van Cruncheon]

T234, that celeron is hyper-threaded, which is sort of a "virtual" dual-core. it has a single core but dual execution paths, basically.

[T234]

Prole, would it be worth the money to put one these in?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116027

[Van Cruncheon]

yeah, it'd give you a decent bit of a bump.

[T234]

This, along with mah 512MB 3850 AGP, shall enable me to take over the *world.

*does not apply to people with 8800s. Those people have ze power. And ze moneys.